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Show . ' Plant of Many Uses. N In 1S30 the congress of Mexico issued is-sued en order that none of the state documents should be Indicted upon any maerial other than the paper made from maguey. This is the national na-tional plant, and some have insisted that the very word Mexico was derived from the word mex-til, which means maguey. The Mexicans do well to be grateful grate-ful to this product of their country, says the Ave Maria, for It is food and drink, house and raiment to the Mexican. Mex-ican. Its other name is agave, oi century plant, from the popular fallacy fal-lacy that it blooms only once a century, cen-tury, whereas it really blossoms every eight years. , The stalk of the blossoms reaches to the height of 25 feet and looks like a giant caBdlestick, for it carries often as many as several thousand blooms Many fields of maguey miles in length are to be found in Mexico, and there is scarcely a bit of the plant which cannot be used In some manner. ( |